
'A very good guide to the state we're in' Paul Krugman New York Review of Books'A well-written thought-provoking book by one of America's leading economic thinkers & progressive champions' Huffington Post Do you recall a time when the income of a single schoolteacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home have two cars & raise a family? Robert Reich does
- in the 1950s his father sold clothes to factory workers & the family earnt enough to live comfortably Today this middle class is rapidly shrinking American income inequality & wealth disparity is the greatest it's been in eighty years As Reich who served in three US administrations shows the threat to capitalism is no longer communism or fascism but a steady undermining of the trust modern societies need for growth & stability With an exclusive chapter for Icon's edition Saving Capitalism is passionate yet practical sweeping yet exactingly argued a revelatory indictment of the economic status quo & an empowering call to action